Who is Kirie Goshima and what is his story in Uzumaki?

Junji Ito is one of the most respected authors in the world. Many consider him a master of terror and the seinen genre, and in his extensive career as a mangaka we can find truly terrifying works that have been translated into multiple languages ​​and even adapted to anime or directly to the big screen.

Uzumaki Ito is probably Ito's best-known manga, and in recent weeks it has gained great notoriety thanks to the news dropped by the ambitious anime adaptation that Adult Swim is carrying out. This work has as its protagonist the young Kirie Goshimawho reaches out to the reader and becomes a witness to the chilling and surreal events that occur throughout the plot. And in this article we will share some of the most shocking moments that this character, so remembered by the mangaka's fans, lived.

The following lines include spoilers from the Uzumaki manga.

Kirie Goshima, the protagonist of a horror story that is hard to forget for manga fans

As with some of the main characters in other Junji Ito stories, Kirie is an ordinary young woman who serves as a link between the reader and the puzzling events that occur in Uzumaki's story. She is Another student from the coastal village of Kurouzu and one of the many victims of strange phenomena that They have as a common pattern the presence of spirals.

The curse of the spirals took over Kirie's hair

At first, she was skeptical that the village had fallen under a curse. Her opinion began to change when one day His hair began to grow and stand up uncontrollably.acting as if she were alive and even trying to strangle Kirie's neck. Luckily, her situation improved thanks to her boyfriend Shuichi, who managed to cut the young woman's hair and temporarily save our protagonist.

From this point in the plot, The curse of the spirals began to be more and more present in Kirie's lifeaffecting her friends and family and gradually plunging her into misery and despair. Thanks to Kirie and the experiences she went through in Chapter 9, it is discovered that The spirals are beginning to affect several locations in the town.taking over the Kurouzu lighthouse and causing a strange hypnosis among some of the inhabitants. Our protagonist's brother decided to explore the interior of the lighthouse, forcing her to come back into contact with the spirals.

Inside the lighthouse, Kirie saw herself Trapped on a spiral staircase that seemed to have no end due to the influence of the spirals. Luckily, he managed to save his brother from the scorching light generated by the lighthouse and escaped with his life. This horrible experience left some wounds on his bodywhich forced her to spend some time in hospital.

In chapter 12, the curse manifested itself in the form of A huge typhoon with a will of its own who chased Kirie constantly, threatening her and her boyfriend Shuichi's lives. In the midst of this situation, a woman wearing a raincoat similar to Kirie's was picked up and quickly thrown to the ground by the typhoon, further disturbing Kirie and making her feel guilty about what happenedIn addition, the typhoon left behind enormous destruction in the village, destroying our protagonist's home and plunging her and her family into absolute poverty.

In the final stretch, The spirals took Kirie's little brother as a victimslowly and irreversibly turning him into a giant snail, a transformation that, moreover, had been occurring for some time among the town's inhabitants. The girl He prevented his brother from being eaten by his own neighbors and did everything possible so that the boy, now in his new form, could escape alive from the spirals that had already taken total control of Kurouzu.